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Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025

Structural arrangements for providing water services - Responsibility for providing water services - Transfer of responsibilities, etc, to water organisation

16: Transfer agreements to be published

You could also call this:

"Agreements must be made public so you can see them"

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When a transfer agreement is made, you will be able to see it because each party involved must make it publicly available. If the agreement has information that could hurt a company's business, the parties can remove that information from the version they make public. This way, you can still see the agreement, but without the sensitive parts.

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Part 2Structural arrangements for providing water services
Responsibility for providing water services: Transfer of responsibilities, etc, to water organisation

16Transfer agreements to be published

  1. Each party to a transfer agreement must make the agreement publicly available.

  2. If the transfer agreement contains information that is commercially sensitive, the parties may redact that information from the published versions of the agreement.